October 08 - A spoonful of sugar* (*not recommended as a first food)

[CantSleepWontSleep]

Have done shortened stats this time, just for those of us who seem to still be around.

10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz - Induction due to rhesus sensitivity, G&A.
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs - Just beat induction for PE!
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz - Fast and furious hospital birth.
22nd Sept (Due 10th Oct) - Lozza70 - Boy - Sander Gene - 7lbs 5oz - Em C-Sec due to raised BP and high ALTs from liver.
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz - 36hr labour, ventouse and stitches.
3rd Oct (Due 26th Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - Rebecca Jill Erzsebet - 8lbs 10.5oz - Homebirth with paramedics due to meconium.
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz -
5th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - hedgepig - Boy - Oliver - 6lbs 3oz -
5th Oct (Due 29th Sept Oct) - CherryChoc - Boy - Ryan - 6lbs 11oz - 3 day labour with natural birth in hospital
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz -
9th Oct (Due 17th) - Marthasmama - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz - 4 day induction with 1 hour established labour!
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz - Homebirth.
13th Oct (Due 15th Oct) - mum2jakeyroo/jrsqueak - Boy - Joshua - 7lbs 2oz - Delivered in car by dh!
16th Oct (Due 17th Oct) - rowanmac - Girl - Anna Ruth - 7lbs 2oz - 2 hours ARM to placenta delivery.
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz - Homebirth
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz -
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz - Home water birth with gas and air.
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz -
1st Nov (Due 22nd Oct) - SmudgeyDoodle - Girl - - 8lbs 2oz - Hospital water birth.
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz -
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz - Em C-Sec. Back to back and knotted cord around neck. 24 hours of labour first though, and don't you forget it!

thanks all for your condolences for Q , I'm going to try the apricot tonight. HV was OK - much older lady than usual and kept telling me that "back when my daughter was weaning..." come on that must have been 60 yrs ago!! sorry... just wasnt that helpful. Hehas had soft normal poos today, though with less straining... but still cant sleep long until the urge to strain comes again. poor little man. He had 3 jabs. last until 12 months. he screamed SO loud!!
myjob - congrats on the night in the same room
yes, where is HMM?
aubergenie - I love watching Q learn, too. It's so much fun!

Hello just a quickie as I'm not feeling very well and have had a hectic day. We took ds's friend with us so I spent the day telling them to stop running near the animals! Now I have a really sore throat and a headache. M LOVED it though. DH carried her round in the baby carrier so she saw all the animals. She loved the baby goats (just like her mother ) and I was tempted to swap her for a gorgeous little piglet.

I have messaged HMM on FB, so she will know we're all missing her. I'll catch up properly in a minute....

Haven't read yet. Is nurse ronshar about? Could do with some advice about how much fluid a baby needs to stop it from dehydrating.

Oh that's good pistachio, thanks. I hadn't heard that one before. Will double check when he wakes but I think his tongue is ok.

Oh dear CSWS. D is really putting you through it isn't he?

Poor D, csws! Have you given him some cooled boiled water?

You and D are really having a tough time of it, poor things.

Apparently sunken eyes are also a sign of dehydration, but you probably know that. How often has D fed today?

Evening ladies.
CSWS, The fontanelle is the most im portant place to keep an eye on. If it appears very sunken and you can really see it pulsing then that is a sign of dehydration. Yes to the tongue one as well. Also the general appearance of Duncans skin, if you can pinch together skin and it takes a while to settle back down then that is a sign of late dehydration. I know you know this but just keep offering feeds. Duncan will get better soon. Babies are tough little buggers

Star poor baby Q. Are you giving Q more fruit than veg? As solids are just an extra to breast milk then perhaps give alot more fruit to help Q's bowel passage. I give maybe 80/20 fruit veg ratio over the day.

Pepper, how horrible for your friend to loose her DH so young. Have a great time away.

Pistachio yeah for the first October tooth.

Myjob and Aubergenie. Oh man how horrid for you all.

Jenwa was there any ham?

Well William had to have a blood test yesterday. He was so brave/hard as nails. He was more interested in trying to destroy the toy they gave him! The GP I saw on Monday think that perhaps William has Slapped cheek. I disagree as he is no where near poorly enough. Also he doesnt have red cheeks! So I dont think it is Rubella or Measles. It is a mystery.
Little Monkey keeps laughing at me. I woke up this morning to see him with both arms and legs shoved through the bars of his cot and shouting MMMMMMMM. Great why cant he shout DDDD.

Ronshar - Well done William for being so tough! DS had his booster jabs last year and he screamed, then sobbed for ages afterwards!I'm so ! Martha won't do MMMMM or DDDD yet. I'm starting to think she's a bit thick! Doesn't the baby rice stuff them up too? DH was adding baby rice to thicken up the veggie purees I'd done! I didn't know that until yesterday! No wonder poor M couldn't poo!

[Peeks head round door to see if anyone remembers her]

Awww, you missed meeeee!

My tinternet was bust for 48 shaky hours, so I went cold turkey. I could've used my crackberry, but didn't get round to it. Sorry if I've worried you! I'm going to read back now. We've been going out for days while DH is off for the Easter hols.

HM lol at 'crackberry'!!!! Love it and welcome back I know my blackberry is crap for MN its would take me 48 hrs to bloody post a message!!!!

ronshar NO HAM!!!! da da dada!!! Spag bol well I was impressed Also with reference to not shouting DDDDD its because they know they wont come

myjob yeh, well done Naomi for your good sleep in your new room, hopefully your mummy will sleep better tonight

csws poor you and D hope he is ok.

MM Glad you ahd a nice day out. Surely you would not want a piglet they get huge and smelly! Hope you feeling ok now? I am sure Martha is not thick either, Phoebe doesn't either, she just babbles little screetchy noises!

No M is not thick, neither is Naomi. They are just waiting until you are out of the room and then they get up and run around singing Girls Aloud.
Then when you come back in they cry so you pick them up and you feel bad for leaving them

HMM, broken tinternet. AAARRRGGG.

evening all, alex tried to crawl today!! i was so shocked. he has been pushing himself up on his hands and toes for about 2 weeks, then today he pulled his knees under him and tried to move forwards. he didn't quite succeed but i don't think it will be long.
dd was 10 months before she crawled.

myjob, lol, he still can't sit up yet and still doesn't sleep so not all good. little monkey, but he's cute when he laughs

so do i, he's been down since 7:20pm and i've only been up twice, so here's hoping!

Myjob 29th is go go go.

Well Willaim is now awake. Probably for the first of many.
Night every one.

I have finished watching The Apprentice catching up now. I'm sorry to hear about poorly DH's and DS's. MM, only you could have that story about a stiletto! Glad your supply is ok MyJob and congrats on the tooth Pistachio! Star, I'd be wary about using orange as it's supposed to be an allergen, I had the same advice from a HV and a doc and then another HV told me not to use OJ, MN is contradictory on this too, best stick to the apricots!
I saw the HV today about my PND, she came to the house and we chatted through things, she's gonna come once a week.
Oh and we've decided to go away next week, probably near Betwys-y-coed in Wales if anyone knows it, really picturesque and not too far from home, about 1.5 hours max.
I'm off to bed shortly, night all!